The Use of Mole Mapping Diagrams to Increase Skin Self Examination Accuracy

Brown University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Melanoma

Treatments: Behavioral: Mole Mapping Diagram

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00237965

00001402

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to improve Skin Self-Examination accuracy by a simple cost effective intervention requiring participants to complete a mole-mapping diagram.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male and female subjects above age 18 of any ethnicity will be enrolled in this study.

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects will be excluded from the study if they have significant skin disease which would not allow manipulation of their photographs consistent with the rest of the subjects.
• Since the study instructions are in English, Non-English speakers will be excluded.
• Those with co-morbidity sufficiently severe to prevent them from being able to perform a SSE will be excluded.
• In addition, those with cognitive impairment who are unable to give informed consent, or to understand the study instructions given to them, will be excluded.